The Mindset Lists

[MikeBravo]

For a second there, I read that as "old codger in his 30's"...

There an old codger in his 20's. His name is Shangas

 

[vitanola]

Well, right there is your problem. People starting colllege in 2002 would have been born in 1984 not 1980. That changes things by 4 years and makes me not trust a list published by people who can't subtract.

The list which was published in 1998 was identified as applying to the class of 2002. This appears to have caused come confusion.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Why on earth would people do that? That said, I firmly believe that a 'reporter' reports news and current events. Facts. This happened on this day at this time and this was the result. A writer in a newspaper which does not write about such things, and which would therefore be classified as 'gossip', would be a columnist or a contributor.

As Thomas Fowler said in "The Quiet American", 'journalists have opinions. I'm not a journalist. I'm a reporter. I write about what happens. Nothing more, nothing less', or words to that effect (It's late at night, and I can't be bothered to find the actual quote).

The problem is, there are very few "reporters" these days. Everyone thinks of themself as an "opinion columnist".

 

[LizzieMaine]

Here's a mindset list for those of us who were born fifty years ago:

1. The Brooklyn Dodgers have always played in Los Angeles.

2. Dwight D. Eisenhower has always been an ex-President.

3. You could never buy a brand-new DeSoto, Nash, or Hudson.

4. Television has always existed.

5. There have never been soap operas on American radio.

6. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Grandma Moses, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, and all veterans of the Civil War have always been dead.

7. Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Rudolf Hess, Charles A. Lindbergh, Adolph Zukor, Walter Winchell, Eddie Cantor, Louis Armstrong, Charles Chaplin, a few veterans of the Spanish American War, and millions of veterans of the First World War have *not* always been dead.

8. The Polo Grounds and Pennsylvania Station have not always been demolished.

9. Coca-Cola has always been available in cans.

10. Depending on where you live, dial telephone service has not always been available.

 

[Stray Cat]

I remember when taping from a record player you had to be careful putting the lid of the record player down. If you weren't gentle, you would hear the bump on the tape

These days they call that piracy

You had to be very careful not to make any sound, since it'll just ruin all that patience you put into pressing the "pause" button. lol
Piracy?
Plagiarism?
Those words are not in the dictionary of those born pre-1990.

There an old codger in his 20's. His name is Shangas

:rofl:

Here's a mindset list for those of us who were born fifty years ago:
10. Depending on where you live, dial telephone service has not always been available.

Mindset list here would have that one 25 years ago. [huh]
..now all that folks skipped the "land phone" phase and jumped into "cable-digital-wireless" one.

 

[HudsonHawk]

..now all that folks skipped the "land phone" phase and jumped into "cable-digital-wireless" one.

We always had a phone in our house, but only one. It was in the hallway, mounted to the wall, and had a LONG cord attached from the base to the handset so that you could walk around the entire house, room to room and the cord would still reach. Mom could stand outside in the front yard with the cord stretched out the door. For that reason, my parents didn't get a cordless phone until about 3 years ago.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

When my Dad was a kid he thought FDR was the only President we had.
He was born in 1928

 

[Stray Cat]

We always had a phone in our house, but only one. It was in the hallway, mounted to the wall, and had a LONG cord attached from the base to the handset so that you could walk around the entire house, room to room and the cord would still reach. Mo.m could stand outside in the front yard with the cord stretched out the door. For that reason, my parents didn't get a cordless phone until about 3 years ago.

Same here!
And then few years ago they’ve informed us that our phone will no longer function, since the town went digital. and we had to "retire" it. That was the only reason why we gave up on dialer-phone.
Spinning the dial.. so much more fun than pressing buttons.

 

[LizzieMaine]

When my Dad was a kid he thought FDR was the only President we had.
He was born in 1928

Around here the generations describe themselves by who was playing left field for the Red Sox when they were born. I'm the Yastrzemski generation, my mother is the Williams generation, my grandmother was the Duffy Lewis generation, my niece is the Greenwell Generation. You can see the quality tends to fall off there a bit.

 

[Harp]

Around here the generations describe themselves by who was playing left field for the Red Sox when they were born.

...Moe Berg caught for the Sox last half of the Thirties and could recite all of Poe's poetry---

 

[HudsonHawk]

Same here!
And then few years ago they’ve informed us that our phone will no longer function, since the town went digital. and we had to "retire" it. That was the only reason why we gave up on dialer-phone.

Oh that blows. In the US the phone line technology itself still more or less works the same way it did 100 years ago, only the phones themselves and the way they connect to the system have changed. That means that the old phones still work perfectly fine, even if they do require more manual labor to operate. But it probably won't be long before it goes the way you describe.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Around here the generations describe themselves by who was playing left field for the Red Sox when they were born. I'm the Yastrzemski generation, my mother is the Williams generation, my grandmother was the Duffy Lewis generation, my niece is the Greenwell Generation. You can see the quality tends to fall off there a bit.

Could be worse...one could be of the Manny Ramirez generation.

 

[Shangas]

There an old codger in his 20's. His name is Shangas

I believe the correct term is 'young fogey'.

 

[Zombie_61]

Most newspaper "journalists" these days can't tell the difference either. Most will tell you "I'm not a 'reporter', I'm a 'columnist'...which means people *want* to read my opinion." Arrogance personified.

"If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed."
Mark Twain

These days I believe this extends to all forms of "news" media.

I believe the correct term is 'young fogey'.

I prefer the term "curmudgeon in training" myself.

 

[MikeBravo]

Nah, curmudgeon has negative grumpy connotations.

Shangas is a lovely young fellow

 

[Shangas]

No I'm not! Don't listen to him. I'm a diabolical monster of unimaginable evil capable of such feats as would cause your eyes to bleed.

...or not.

*kissbunnies*

 

[Zombie_61]

Nah, curmudgeon has negative grumpy connotations.

Shangas is a lovely young fellow

I was, of course, speaking only for myself; I have been known to be quite grumpy from time to time. Shangas is free to describe himself as he chooses.

 

[LizzieMaine]

There's nothing wrong with being a curmudgeon. A curmudgeon merely sees society, or some particular aspect of society for what it actually is, not what its apologists pretend it is. Great curmudgeons thru the ages have included the likes of Ambrose Bierce, Fred Allen, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Cleveland Amory, and the author of the Bible book of Ecclesiastes. Pretty decent company.

Signed,
A Curmudgienne.

 

[Otis]

Heh, heh ok, and to that list add comedian W.C. Fields and author Paul Fussell. It's been almost 20 years since I've read anything of his, but his railing against "prole caps" is something I'll never forget.

I didn't know Fred Allen was a curmudgeon. His Allens Alley routine was funny, but I never thought he was particularly cranky. Or was he that way in real life?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Read "Fred Allen's Letters" for a taste of what he wasn't allowed to say on the air. I never knew anyone of his generation -- New Englanders born in the 1890s -- who *wasn't* a curmudgeon. Especially if they were Irish.